Light on the Path

Mabel Collins was born in Guernsey (Channel islands) in 1851.
She was a co-worker of Helena Petrowna Blavatsky for a while.
In May 1913 she met Rudolf Steiner in
London. She fully recognized Steiners research.
Collins led the Light on The Path lodge of
the Theosophical Society together with D.N. Dunlop.
She wrote The Blossom and the Fruit - A True
Story of a Black Magician, Idyll of the White Lotus, When the Sun
moves Northwards, Light on the Path, The Story of the Year and many
other books. Mabel Collins died on March 31 1927 in Gloucester
(England).

The book by Mabel Collins, Light on
the Path; anybody who wants to travel towards the heights has to
understand Light on the Path. It is a small book as far as quantity
is concerned, just a few pages, but as far as quality is concerned
it is one of the biggest, the greatest books. And, wonder of
wonders, it has been written in the modern age. Nobody knows who the
author Mabel Collins is. The author never even writes the name Mabel
Collins in full, but only M.C. It is just by chance that I have come
to know the full name through a few friends of M.C.
Why M.C.? I can understand the reason. The writer is only a vehicle,
and more particularly so in the case of Light on the Path. Perhaps
the Sufi, Khidr - I have told you about him: the spirit who leads
people, guides people, helps people - was behind M.C.′s work too.
M.C. was a Theosophist. He or she would - I don′t know whether the
author is a man or woman, it does not matter anyway - or may not
have liked to have been guided by Khidr, the Sufi idea of the
ultimate guide. But M.C. would be immensely happy if I use the
parallel Theosophical name: they call it K.H. Any name will do. What
you call it does not matter... Master K.H. or the mystic Khijra, it
is all the same. But the book is immensely helpful. Whosoever wrote
it, whosoever guided the writer, that′s beside the point; the book
itself stands like a golden tower.

(Osho in Books I have Loved #7)

We exist in the body, but there are
many holy ones around you who exist in a bodiless state. The human
spirit can exist either in a body or in an unembodied form. The
unembodied form is still part of the universe; it is still in the
world. It has not escaped it; liberation has not yet happened. It is
prone to come back, it tends to come back. It simply waits for the
right womb.
There are many holy masters existing in an unembodied form who are
not absolutely enlightened. When one is absolutely enlightened he
disappears from the body and from the form itself. He disappears
completely; he dissolves into the world′s source. A Buddha, a Jesus
- they dissolve back to the original source. But there are many who
are not absolutely enlightened but who have come to know many
things, who have realized many beauties, who have realized many
truths (but not ′the′ truth). They have realized many, many things
and have reached a certain level. They′re not enlightened, but they
have reached a certain level. That is why they are called ′the holy
ones′. They can be of much help to you. If you are open to them, you
can be in contact with them. In theosophy, they are called ′the
Masters′.
This book, Light on the Path, was dictated by the Masters to Mabel
Collins. The Masters know many secrets that have disappeared from
the earth, from the records of humanity, or have been distorted. Or,
we just cannot read them because the language is forgotten. It is
still not possible to know what is written in the Harappa
Mohenjodaro culture. It remains a secret. We know something is
written, but what is written we don′t know. The form remains but the
keys are lost. We know many scriptures from many cultures, but the
language is lost.
These holy ones can reveal many things which go on lasting. They can
make us remember. You can have contact with them if you are silent,
innocent, moving inward. If you are using your inner senses you can
have contact with them and your life can very easily become
transformed. You, alone, may take lives to reach the goal, but with
these holy ones, you can be helped easily.
And there are many of them. You just need to be open, unafraid,
ready to receive the guidance, and the guidance will be given to
you. But before you can receive it, you have to prepare yourself in
receptivity, in deep receptivity. Through meditation, that
receptivity will happen to you. And there is no other way. Only
through silence will you become capable of hearing something that
comes from the beyond.